As state president, Williamson will help integrate Bank of America business lines throughout Maine. He will also oversee corporate social responsibility activities including philanthropic giving, community development lending and investing, environmental initiatives, diversity efforts, arts and culture projects, and employee volunteerism.

In addition to his responsibilities as state president, Williamson is a senior client manager in Bank of America’s global commercial bank. In that capacity, he serves a diverse group of public and private companies in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. -Business Wire

Lupowitz presently is the chief executive officer of direct markets. -Business Wire

Woldt is responsible for the continued growth of its business in the region. He will be working with Europe, Middle East and Africa regional management, and drawing on Northern Trust’s asset servicing, asset management and wealth management expertise to serve institutional asset owners, asset managers and family office clients. He will re-locate from Chicago to Abu Dhabi, reporting to Penelope Biggs, head of the institutional investor group, EMEA. Locally, he will work closely with Michael Slater, head of the Abu Dhabi office, and Kais Abbas, head of investment business development.

Woldt has been with Northern Trust since 1983 during which time he has worked with a range of Middle East clients across a number of sectors. -Business Wire

MacDonald was most recently global head of retail at MF Global. He was a director at GFI Group (GFIG) from 2006 to 2008, and was chairman of the compensation committee and a member of the audit committee. -PR Newswire

Diego Baez, formerly of Terra Futuros, has been named managing director of Latin American equities.

Baez will focus on building the team and form strategic joint ventures and DMA Connectivity in Latin American markets. He was the head of electronic trading at Terra Futuros where he helped build the company’s electronic trading business.

George Medina, formerly of S.J. Levinson & Sons, has been named director of Latin American sales.

Medina was previously was managing director with S.J. Levinson & Sons where he managed a portfolio of sales teams and accounts.

Jose Berges, formerly of Interacciones Casa de Bolsa, has been named director of Latin American sales.

Berges was director at Interacciones Casa de Bolsa where he developed the company’s international institutional client base.

Mauro Orefice, formerly of Interbolsa Securities, joins as director of Brazilian sales.

Orefice was most recently was head of sales and trading for Interbolsa Securities where he participated in setting up the institutional trading desk covering clients from the U.S., Europe and Latin America.

These individuals will report to Jarred Kessler, global head of equities. Baez and Medina will be located in New York; Berges and Orefice will be located in Miami.

In addition, Francisco Romero, formerly of Macquarie Capital, has been named managing director of emerging markets, joining Charles Cortellesi and Erich Bauer-Rowe, recently named co-heads of the debt capital markets’ emerging markets division.

Romero previously was associate director at Macquarie Capital in the emerging markets trading division focused on Central American and Caribbean credits, and a vice president in the Latin American sales team at Refco Securities. -PR Newswire

Joseph Spinelli will join the bank in August as a managing director and head of North America cash equity trading. He will be based in New York and report to Thomas Patrick, head of equities for North America.

Spinelli joins from Goldman Sachs & Co., where he was a managing director and financial services sector head for equity trading. Prior to Goldman, he was the head equity trader at Ziff Brother Investments.

Brad Kurtzman will join the bank in July as a managing director and head of quantitative trading. He will be based in New York and report to Patrick.

Kurtzman brings more than 12 years of trading experience, most recently as head of US equity derivatives trading at Citibank.

Jeff Christian will join the bank in July as a managing director in equity derivatives sales, based in San Francisco. He will oversee West Coast coverage and report to Greg Kuppenheimer, head of US equity derivatives sales.

Christian will join the bank from Credit Suisse, where he spent four years managing West Coast equity derivative sales. Prior to Credit Suisse, he was an executive director at Morgan Stanley, covering hedge funds and asset managers.

Jonathan Simon will join in July as a managing director in equity derivatives sales. In this New York-based role, he will manage relationships with hedge funds and asset managers, and report to Kuppenheimer.

Simon has more than 20 years of experience and spent the last eight years as a managing director in equity derivative sales at Citigroup.

Zahid Biviji started in April as a managing director in index flow trading. He is based in New York and reports to Tom Jarck, head of US index flow trading.

Biviji joined from Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he spent more than 10 years, most recently as head of US single stock options trading. -Business Wire

Olympio Pereira is responsible for the areas of investment banking, private banking and assets management. He replaces Antonio Quintella, who has been appointed as chairman of the board of Credit Suisse Hedging Griffo.

Olympio Pereira previously managed the investments banking business of credit in Brazil and brings with him executive Marcelo Kayath, also from the investment banking area, to manage the variable and fixed income areas for Latin America.

Daniel Pinto, currently co-head of global fixed income with Zames, will become sole head of the group. He will also remain CEO of Europe, Middle East and Africa region, based in London. -Business Wire

Borrows, who joined as chief investment officer, will take over from Michael Queen.

Joerger will be responsible for directing farmland property manager relationships as well as acquisition and disposition processing, including financial modeling and investment presentation. He will also be responsible for the group’s property-level risk management and farmland appraisal program.

Before joining the the company, Joerger was an area vice president and part of the senior management team at Farmers National Company based in Overland Park, Kansas. -PR Newswire

Weisenseel will lead all global finance and reporting functions for the firm and report to the company’s chief operating officer, James A. Gingrich.

Weisenseel joins the firm from The McGraw-Hill Companies, where he most recently served as senior vice president and chief financial officer of Standard & Poor’s since 2007. -SEC Form 8k

In this new role, Gupte will become a member of the CTS executive and management committees as well as the Asia Pacific executive and operating committees.

A 23-year Citi veteran, Gupte is currently the head of Citi’s treasury and trade solutions for the North America region. Prior to assuming that role in April 2008, he has held numerous positions in CTS, including head of cash management for North America, head of Payments for EMEA, head of cash management for Western Europe, as well as head of transaction services for Citi India sub-continent. Before joining CTS, he was with Citi’s consumer bank in India and held roles in sales, product management and treasury. -Economic News

Donald Layton

Layton will succeed Charles E. Haldeman Jr. -Business Wire; Associated Press Financial Wire

Stilmar, who follows financial services, including commercial and specialty finance companies, has spent nearly four years as a director and senior research analyst at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, where he covered a variety of financial services companies, including commercial banks, commercial finance companies, business development companies and other specialty lenders. He formerly served as a vice president and senior equity analyst at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co., covering transportation finance and other commercial lenders after initially following consumer finance companies, mortgage banks and mortgage REITs as a research associate. He began his career as an analyst in the corporate planning group at Capital One Financial Corporation. -Business Wire

In his new role, David will be responsible for leading and managing the continued expansion of the organisation’s specialist fund servicing and custody operations in Luxembourg, which serves clients around the world. He replaces Ian Baillie, and will report to Toby Glaysher, head of Northern Trust’s global fund services activities in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

Most recently, David was managing director of the Luxembourg management company. -Business Wire

Larios will continue to be responsible for day-to-day operations, as well as the overall strategic direction of the company.

Ford, who has spent 17 years in Asia, joined HSBC in 2010 to lead the global relationship management function for hedge funds in the region. Previously, he worked for prime services units at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank AG. -HedgeWorld Daily News

Based in New York, Haas will work closely with all functional areas within asset management, and will join the firm’s management committee.

Prior to joining Perella Weinberg Partners, Haas was a managing director and head of the pensions, endowments and foundations coverage team at Morgan Stanley. -Business Wire

Marcell will immediately relocate to New York from London, where he has served as Guy Carpenter’s CEO of global practices and head of placement strategy since 2010.

Chandler, who has been with the company since 2009, previously served as head of the company’s U.S. eastern region and head of the western region before that.

Kevin Fisher has been named CEO of the firm’s global specialties, comprising Lloyds property, retrocession, marine, aviation and North American placement.  -BestWire

Malloy has extensive management experience in the insurance industry as both an underwriter and a broker.

Sze has been appointed a managing director and market Leader for Greater China, effective from July 16, 2012. He will be based in Hong Kong reporting to Anna Wong, market area head Greater China.

Wong has joined the company as a director and team leader for Greater China and will report to Sze. -RTTNews

Townsend will report to the CEO and become a member of the company’s executive management team.

Townsend joins MetLife from Chartis, where he most recently served as chief executive officer of the company’s Asia-Pacific region. Earlier, he was the CEO for Hong Kong, head of mergers and acquisitions, and held a number of senior leadership roles in Hong Kong, Singapore, London and Sydney. He joined Chartis in the United Kingdom in 1991 and has spent more than half of his 21-year career in the company’s Asia-Pacific region. -Business Wire

Ransom, who has been with the firm 14 years, has been also been promoted to managing director of brokerage operations, a hybrid position in which he’ll continue to be involved in deals in the field while representing the firm in the community.

Patridge, who joined the company in 1992 and was promoted to president in 2002, will run day-to-day operations.

Grimes will join as executive director and head of PAM. He has over 25 years of experience in the property industry and was formerly a director and head of property and asset management at Bannon Commercial, having previously held senior positions with Land Securities in the UK and Green Property in Ireland.

Cleary joins as director, heading up PAM operations. He has been director of property management with Colliers. -Irish Independent

Grady comes to PrinceRidge from Morgan Keegan & Company where he was managing director and head of the retail investment banking group.

Fischer joins PrinceRidge from Morgan Keegan & Company where he served as senior vice president in charge of the restaurant banking group. -Business Wire